The Cocoanuts (1929)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.1/10   

Directors:

Robert Florey
Joseph Santley

Escritores:

George S. Kaufman (play)
Morrie Ryskind (adaptation)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

3 agosto 1929 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Musical

Frase comercial:

Paramount's All Talking-Singing Musical Comedy Hit!

Plot:

During the Florida land boom, the Marx brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.

Plot Keywords:

Florida | Hotel | Auction | Marx Brothers | Engagement

Comentarios de los usuarios:

I liked it. It was nice.

Reparto

Zeppo Marx	...	Jamison
Groucho Marx	...	Hammer
Harpo Marx	...	Harpo
Chico Marx	...	Chico
Oscar Shaw	...	Bob Adams
Mary Eaton	...	Polly Potter
Cyril Ring	...	Harvey Yates
Kay Francis	...	Penelope
Margaret Dumont	...	Mrs. Potter
Basil Ruysdael	...	Detective Hennessy
Gamby-Hale Ballet Girls	...	Themselves (as Gamby-Hale Girls)
Allan K. Foster Girls	...	Themselves

También conocida como:

Los cuatro cocos (Spain) [es]
Los cuatro locos (Spain) [es]

Duración:

96 min | USA:140 min (preview)

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Negro y Blanco

Relación de Aspecto:

1.20 : 1

Sonido:

Mono (Western Electric System)

Clasificación:

USA:Approved (certificate not issued at release) | UK:U | Finland:K-8 | USA:Passed

Locaciones de Filmación:

Kaufman Astoria Studios - 3412 36th Street, Astoria, Queens, New York City, New York, USA

Compañía:

Paramount Pictures

Trivialidades:

The sight gags in which Harpo eats the lobby's telephone and drinks from the inkwell were not in the original play. Robert Florey improvised the gags to give Harpo bits of silent business to do.

Citas:

Hammer: I'm gonna put extra blankets, free, in all your rooms, and there'll be no cover charge.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en The Unknown Marx Brothers (1993) (TV)

Banda de Sonido:

MONKEY-DOODLE-DO0

I liked it. It was nice.

The Marx Brothers first motion picture and Paramount's first "all talking, all singing, all dancing" musical will delight fans of the Marx Brothers, musicals and early cinema alike. While dated and somewhat stagey, after all it *was* basically a filmed version of their hit Broadway show, it holds up better than many films of its day. Kaufman and Ryskind, who also wrote the stage show, wrote the screenplay with an eye to making the Marx Brothers wit appear spontaneous and natural. I remember how shocked I was when I first realized the boys were using a script!

The movie is laced with classics of Marxian comedy. The famous "Why a duck?" scene with Groucho and Chico (remember - it's pronounced Chick-o, not Cheek-o, because he was such a womanizer), Groucho answering the telephone at the hotel's front desk (Ice water? Ice water? Peel some onions. That'll make your eyes water.) and Harpo shaking hands with the house detective while all of the hotel silverware falls out of his coat pockets.

Margaret Dumont is priceless as the clueless matron. She claimed in later years it wasn't an act; she really had no idea what the brothers were doing. Regardless, she is the ideal foil for the boys as they tear into "polite" society.

Take a look at The Cocoanuts. You'll see the wellspring from which all that Marx madness flows.

Jon Brian Waugh